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Biography lends to death a new terror.


Oscar Wilde
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We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
Samuel Rutherford
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A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.


George Packer
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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.


Mario Cuomo
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.


William Ellery Channing
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.


V. S. Naipaul
Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'
Siri Hustvedt
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Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.


Pamela Stephenson
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.


Jose Ortega y Gasset
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A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.
Lee Siegel
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I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.


Emmylou Harris
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Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy
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I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
Richard Attenborough
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Edmund White
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.


Thomas Carlyle
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From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.


John Greenleaf Whittier
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Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
Martin Filler
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
Edmund White
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
Anthony Trollope
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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
John Irving